LONG SHADOWS: THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, FIRST PHASE

By ordering the arrest of Armenian elites, Mehmed Talaat triggered the first phase of the genocide.

After the elimination of their leaders, some two million Ottoman Armenians and Assyrians were removed from Asia Minor. Most were conveyed via railway cattle wagons or on foot to camps in northern Syria.

Hundreds of thousands were massacred in their home provinces or died en route to the camps. Others escaped into Northern Iran, the Caucasus, the Sinjar mountains of the Yazidis in Northern Iraq, and into the mountainous Alevi-Kurdish province of Dersim in Eastern Anatolia.

PhotographerUnknownDate Taken1915Image DescriptionMarching Anatolia’s Armenians to the Syrian desert started in May 1915 in the province of Erzurum. Political Archive of the Foreign Office, Berlin. PAAA Constantinople no. 169

The University Gallery (4th Sep 2018). LONG SHADOWS: THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, FIRST PHASE. In Website The University Gallery. Retrieved 15th Sep 2019 23:52, from https://gallery.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/3240